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Rite de passage - solo II
What form would a “maroon” dance take? Historically, the term “marroonage” referred to when African slaves escaped from the masters who held them in captivity. In art, the term has come to designate the conquest of a space of freedom in response to the constraints imposed by a system. Bintou Dembélé, who honed her craft through hip-hop before developing her own transdisciplinary aesthetic, is now pursuing her research into this idea through this new solo, devised for the dancer Michel “Meech” Onomo. After intense collective adventures, including Les Indes galantes at the Paris Opera, Rite de Passage – Solo II, developed in particular during a residency at the Villa Medici in Rome, is centred on the memory of a body, meditating on questions such as time and death. In the aesthetic landscape that shaped this work we find the choreographer Alain Buffard and the dialogue he developed with Anna Halprin in the early 2000s, as well as the musician Charles Amblard for the sound design.
Source: programme of the CND
